Emblemática, mnemotecnia y el arte de narrar: El episodio de Everardo en El peregrino en su patria de Lope de Vega

2016

ABSTRACT: This essay examines an aspect of Lope de Vega’s iconographic program in The Pilgrim, or Stranger in His Own Country by focusing on the interpolated tale of Everardo, a Christian knight who has been confined to a prison cell that is painted with «hieroglyphs and verses». The episode combines rhetorical and dialectical aspects of memory and establishes a connection between artificial memory systems, emblems, secular meditational practices, and story telling. I propose that Everardo’s tale displays a mnemonic intentionality that connects it with artificial systems of memory developed in classical antiquity and later used as prototypes during the early modern period. The episode not o…